industrialize
verb
in·dus·tri·al·ize
in-ˈdə-strē-ə-ˌlīz 
industrialized; industrializing
: to make industrial
industrialize an agricultural region
: to become industrial
Examples of industrialize in a Sentence
The government hopes to industrialize some of the agricultural regions.
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Buzz around the concept of factories that industrialize manufacturing AI has gained ground in recent months, particularly as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stressed the importance of the infrastructure at a June event.
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April Roach, CNBC, 29 July 2025
Food production is industrialized, only to riddle our teeth with cavities.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
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Increasingly integrated by Southern Black migrants toward the turn of the 20th century, the neighborhood rapidly industrialized into a hub of factories and slaughterhouses, and became known for the kind of living conditions that kept typhoid top of mind.
—Erin Quinlan, Architectural Digest, 30 June 2025
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April Roach, CNBC, 29 July 2025
Food production is industrialized, only to riddle our teeth with cavities.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
LinkedIn democratized access to professional networks while simultaneously industrializing the performance itself, making visible what was once private and measurable what was once intuitive.
—Nathan Pettijohn, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
Increasingly integrated by Southern Black migrants toward the turn of the 20th century, the neighborhood rapidly industrialized into a hub of factories and slaughterhouses, and became known for the kind of living conditions that kept typhoid top of mind.
—Erin Quinlan, Architectural Digest, 30 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for industrialize
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“Industrialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/industrialize. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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industrialize
verb
in·dus·tri·al·ize
in-ˈdəs-trē-ə-ˌlīz
industrialized; industrializing
: to make or become industrial
industrialize an agricultural region
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